<HTML>In a message dated 9/6/2003 6:25:10 PM GMT Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I could swear the call was for the U.S. out and the UN in, in accordance with the position of the Iraqi secular left, or what there is of it. Who are these people who'd except the USG to do something good in Iraq?</BLOCKQUOTE> Blithering liberals in the peace movement without any radical analysis, that's who'd naively expect the USG to do something good in Iraq. But at least SOMETIMES blithering liberals can entertain the concept of open competitive bidding! Dump the USG in Iraq any way you can. Get the competent technocrats out of detention and get the electricity back on! THere DoreneC</HTML>